David Simmonds

11 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Supported Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the requirement for providers of supported accommodation for 16 and 17 year olds to register with Ofsted on the sufficiency of placements.

11 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Supported Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many under-16s are currently placed in unregulated accommodation compared to prior to when the ban on that practice came into force on 9 September 2021.

11 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Supported Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the ban on placing children under the age of 16 in unregulated accommodation on outcomes for those children in the 12 months since the introduction o

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many special schools are currently in receipt of the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service; and how many children attend those schools.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Department will publish further information on future plans for the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service.

13 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated by Government bodies and agencies to run awareness campaigns on the risks of cancer for (a) children and (b) young adults in (i) each of the last three years and

7 Jul 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Outdoor Recreation: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to support local outdoor activity centres.

13 Jun 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Rwanda

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the cost of the flight to Rwanda that is scheduled to depart on 14 June 2022 would need to paid for in full in the event that no asylum seekers are on the flight.

13 Jun 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Rwanda

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost to the public purse is of the flight to Rwanda scheduled to take off on 14 June 2022.

23 May 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure schools co-operate with local safeguarding arrangements.

29 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department holds data on the impact of the extension of free school meals to children in families with no recourse to public funds on the educational attainment of those children.

29 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Refugees: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to protect children who have been separated from parents and family on arrival in the UK.

29 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what further measures his Department plans to introduce to ensure that Ukrainian children arriving in the UK receive adequate housing, education, and psychosocial support.

29 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department is providing to victims of domestic violence who have no recourse to public funds.

29 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the review of free school meals to children from families with no recourse to public funds.

25 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Annuities

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department is taking steps to allow individuals to exit their annuity plans.

17 Mar 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support grassroots sport.

26 Jan 2022 · Northern Ireland Office

Skilled Workers: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps his Department is taking to improve skills in Northern Ireland.

6 Jan 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help support grassroots sports initiatives.

7 Dec 2021 · Home Office

Migrants: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the annual saving to the public purse of the no recourse to public funds policy.

7 Dec 2021 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of the continued provision of free school meals to children whose families are subject to the no recourse to public funds condition.

3 Nov 2021 · Home Office

Asylum: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the potential effect on the economy of granting asylum seekers the right to work.

27 Oct 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Migrant Workers: Large Goods Vehicle Drivers

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of applications received for endorsement letters under the HGV fuel tanker driver concession have been issued with endorsement letters.

15 Oct 2021 · Home Office

Frontex

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the status of the relationship is between the UK and Frontex as at 18 October 2021.

15 Oct 2021 · Home Office

Frontex

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK contributes financially to Frontex.

15 Oct 2021 · Home Office

Frontex

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK still participates in (a) formal and (b) informal cooperation with Frontex.

20 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

ACP Countries: EU External Relations

What discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the principles outlined in the successor to the Cotonou Agreement and the effect of the implementation of that successor agreement on the UK's interests.

12 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

What recent progress her Department has made on implementing the new National Transfer Scheme.

7 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to update the right to work and rent guidance to align that guidance with the EU Settlement Scheme Certificates of Applications which are not time limited to six months.

7 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what date EU citizens who have made an in-time EU Settlement Scheme application will be able to use the View and Prove service with a certificate of application to generate a shared code instead of